Lord Of The Rings Online

If you have ever wanted to play a human who turns into a werebear, as they are called in D&D, or a skin-walker as they are called in Native American culture? Then Lord of the Rings Online has a new character class for you: the Beorning.

Plenty of MMOs are hosting holiday events or other sorts of festivities between now and the new year, so instead of creating a news post for each one, I thought I would round a few up for you instead. Get the list full of acronyms below.

Lord of the Rings Online: Helm’s Deep goes live today after storms on Sunday night knocked out the power and caused issues into Monday and Tuesday, delaying the expansion’s release. While you wait on the download to finish you should have a look at the patch notes which will also detail the myriad of class […]

Following some down time this weekend, the Helm’s Deep expansion for Lord of the Rings has been delayed. The free-to-play MMO went down due to a power outage at its data centre, according to a Facebook post, and as a result Helm’s Deep will be released on November 20, a few days late. Helm’s Deep […]

Now’s a good time to beef up your stats in Lord of the Rings Online. The game is offering a 100% XP boost for all players in the run up to the forthcoming expansion/re-structuring Helm’s Deep. The idea is to help players get to the level required for the expansion. The boost is available now […]

Lord of the Rings Online’s Update 11: Treachery of the White Hand is out next week, and to get you ready to venture into the Wildermore, Turbine has released a set of shots and a video showing off the Eastern Rohan.

Lord of the Rings Online developer Turbine will be taking virtual bulldozers to abandoned homes in its MMO as of Update 11.. Players who own the buildings will have two months to pay off their debts or face eviction.

Lord of the Rings Online is turning six, and to celebrate, it will be handing out goodies to all of its players. Said goodies include classic festival events, fireworks, the chance to earn anniversary tokens, and other fine fare. The Anniversary Festival takes place April 16-30, and once again, some of the gifts handed out […]

Big changes are coming to Lord of the Rings Online’s Wardens in the imminent update. The class is undergoing such a dramatic change that Turbine has decided to implement a grace period to allow players to collect gear appropriate to the new builds. If you play or are interested in a Warden, check out this […]

The Lord of the Rings Online Update 10 is coming soon, and Jonathan Steady at Turbine has posted a Dev Diary to explain some upcoming changes to the game they haven’t yet talked about, such as boss loot alterations and what’s going on with armor set bonuses.

The LOTRO servers are back online after a longer than planned scheduled maintenance. To compensate players for the downtime, Turbine is giving all Premium and VIP players who have logged into their account in last 30 Days – as of 6:00am EST on February 14 – 250 Turbine points. All VIP players who have logged […]

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If you have ever wanted to play a human who turns into a werebear, as they are called in D&D, or a skin-walker as they are called in Native American culture? Then Lord of the Rings Online has a new character class for you: the Beorning.

Plenty of MMOs are hosting holiday events or other sorts of festivities between now and the new year, so instead of creating a news post for each one, I thought I would round a few up for you instead. Get the list full of acronyms below.

Lord of the Rings Online: Helm’s Deep goes live today after storms on Sunday night knocked out the power and caused issues into Monday and Tuesday, delaying the expansion’s release. While you wait on the download to finish you should have a look at the patch notes which will also detail the myriad of class […]

Following some down time this weekend, the Helm’s Deep expansion for Lord of the Rings has been delayed. The free-to-play MMO went down due to a power outage at its data centre, according to a Facebook post, and as a result Helm’s Deep will be released on November 20, a few days late. Helm’s Deep […]

Now’s a good time to beef up your stats in Lord of the Rings Online. The game is offering a 100% XP boost for all players in the run up to the forthcoming expansion/re-structuring Helm’s Deep. The idea is to help players get to the level required for the expansion. The boost is available now […]

Lord of the Rings Online’s Update 11: Treachery of the White Hand is out next week, and to get you ready to venture into the Wildermore, Turbine has released a set of shots and a video showing off the Eastern Rohan.

Lord of the Rings Online developer Turbine will be taking virtual bulldozers to abandoned homes in its MMO as of Update 11.. Players who own the buildings will have two months to pay off their debts or face eviction.

Lord of the Rings Online is turning six, and to celebrate, it will be handing out goodies to all of its players. Said goodies include classic festival events, fireworks, the chance to earn anniversary tokens, and other fine fare. The Anniversary Festival takes place April 16-30, and once again, some of the gifts handed out […]

Big changes are coming to Lord of the Rings Online’s Wardens in the imminent update. The class is undergoing such a dramatic change that Turbine has decided to implement a grace period to allow players to collect gear appropriate to the new builds. If you play or are interested in a Warden, check out this […]

The Lord of the Rings Online Update 10 is coming soon, and Jonathan Steady at Turbine has posted a Dev Diary to explain some upcoming changes to the game they haven’t yet talked about, such as boss loot alterations and what’s going on with armor set bonuses.

The LOTRO servers are back online after a longer than planned scheduled maintenance. To compensate players for the downtime, Turbine is giving all Premium and VIP players who have logged into their account in last 30 Days – as of 6:00am EST on February 14 – 250 Turbine points. All VIP players who have logged […]

Riders of Rohan, the expansion for Lord of the Rings Online is out next week, and to get you a bit excited over it, a new developer diary focusing on the sountrack is available below. The music in the MMO has always been one of its strong points, and it sounds as through RoR won’t […]

Lord of the Rings Online has a new developer diary out for Riders of Rohan, which takes a look at the Epic Storyline. There’s information in there on how the team at Turbine brought some of the locations in the book to life, and how deep down, poor Boromir was still a good guy – […]

Lord of the Rings Online: Riders of Rohan screenshots landed in our inbox this morning, and we thought we’d share them with you. Each shows new landscape creatures and troops from the three major factions that are running rampant over the plains of Rohan: the White Hand, Mordor and the Easterlings.

Lord of the Rings Online’s Treasure Hunt is back, so if you missed out on hugging all the Cave-claws needed on your list, you’re in luck. Players will also be digging for all sorts of cosmetics, a mount, and emotes. New rewards are available this time out as well, as noted in the latest release […]

Lord of the Rings Online has a new Riders of Rohan developer diary available in which senior producer Aaron Campbell, executive producer Kate Paiz, and other Turbine developers discuss the new expansion which takes players into the gorgeous plains rules by the horse lords. The expansion will see the breaking up of the Fellowship, the […]

Lord of the Rings Online beta testers have revealed that Riders of Rohan, the free-to-play MMORPG’s next major expansion, will launch will a full native OS-X client. Although no official announcement has been made, the lifting of the NDA on the expansion’s beta testing allowed forumites to get the news out. Mac users had previously […]

Riders of Rohan, the upcoming expansion for The Lord of the Rings Online, has been delayed into October according to an announcement from Turbine. However, there’s a silver lining to it, as you’ll see below.

Mounted combat is one of the holy grails of fantasy RPGs because it’s so hard to pull off well. Riders of Rohan looks to do a pretty decent job, and in this developer diary, Turbine explains how it’s integrated this most delightful of pursuits without disturbing Lord of the Rings Online’s combat balance.